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• The raffle is just a matter of luck.From the entry luck
• She ran raffles, card games and housie to raise money for Māori welfare.2001, Patricia Grace, Irihapeti Ramsden, Jonathan Dennis, The Silent Migration: Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club, 1937-1948, page 119. From the entry housie
• Raffles, consciously or unconsciously, was completely free from any subjection to the climate.1951, C.E. Wurzburg, Raffles of the Eastern Isles. From the entry tidapathy
• I un'erstan', sah, dat you had a bad fall goin' hom fum de raffle tudder night.1915 June 30, The Day Book, Chicago, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1. From the entry tudder
• The Fair is a registered charity that donates funds raised by koha, raffle or bake sales to charities in the community.2016 January 11, “Gisborne goes arty at the Arts and Craft Fair: Crowds flock in to support local artists”, in Gisborne Herald. From the entry koha
• There will also be a raffle to win some nappies.2013 April 11, Theresa Phyfer, quotee, “Call to use 'real' nappies”, in The Barry Gem, page 4. From the entry nappy library
• If we had a money tree, boys, there would be no need of the bakery, no need of the raffle.2004, Leo Furey, The Long Run, page 86. From the entry money tree
• And the raffle prizes are always big red meat trays, (not a vegetarian amongst them), or cartons of tinnies.2002, Cheryl Kernot, Speaking for Myself Again Four Years of Labour and Beyond, unnumbered page. From the entry meat tray
• Sometimes they were raffles, mostly they were doorknocks.1981, Graham Jackson, Square Crib, page 98. From the entry doorknock
• The ticket donations help support the festivities and also make ticket donaters eligible to participate in a raffle during the tardeada.1979, Sentimientos, page 39. From the entry donater
• Funds were also raised through LNER staff volunteering their time to participate in a range of activities, including sporting events, bake sales and raffles.2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23. From the entry bake sale
• Raffles Junior College, which is 11 years old, is part of the Rafflesian family, and so falls under the umbrella of the Old Rafflesian Association.1992, Singapore Bulletin, Singapore: Publicity Division, Ministry of Culture, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 2. From the entry Rafflesian
• The Dog wasn′t remotely interested in the raffle even though winning the occasional fruit and vegie basket or meat tray has helped our constricted budget at times.2012, June Loves, The Festival by the Sea, unnumbered page. From the entry meat tray
• We are already going on a minicruise in March that we won in a raffle on board the ferry when Dad took me to Northern Spain last September.2012, Sarah Mills, A Debtor's Diary: A Year in the Life of an Insolvent Baby Boomer, page 20. From the entry minicruise
• Jan and Fergus are recommending activities like raffles and lamington drives and car washes - which are all well and good but will raise the entrants hardly any money.2003, Rebecca Sparrow, The Girl Most Likely, University of Queensland Press, page 70. From the entry lamington drive
• They did their best to protect their precious victories, found ways to qualify for a little federal funding, or went back to raffles and lamington drives.2003, Mark Peel, The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty, page 143. From the entry lamington drive
• Oldest daughter Virginia recalled with pride that her mother’s angel’s food cakes and her fudgelike penuche were special favorites at charity bake sales and raffles for church and schools.1997, Ed Cray, “A Certain Amount of Respect”, in Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, part…. From the entry fudgelike

Meaning of raffle

1. noun A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
2. noun A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
3. noun The system by which cases are assigned to judges in multi-sala courts.

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Questions about raffle in a sentence

How do you use raffle in a sentence?

Raffle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.”

What is a short sentence with raffle?

“to raffle for a watch”

What does raffle mean?

Raffle means a drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.